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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2005, 5:48 PM EDT for Watauga County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2005, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2005, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Watauga County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1015 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KRNK 192148
FFWRNK
NCC189-200045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
548 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WESTERN WATAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 845 PM EDT
* AT 543 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO VALLE
CRUCIS...SUGAR GROVE...SILVERSTONE...SANDS...ROMINGER...PEORIA...
AND LOVILL.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. CREEKS THAT ARE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FLOODING INCLUDE POND CREEK...BEECH CREEK...AND
LAUREL CREEK...AS WELL AS PORTIONS OF THE WATAUGA RIVER.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. REMEMBER TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF
CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAIN
COULD ALSO CAUSE ROCK AND MUDSLIDES.
PLEASE RELAY REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4.
LAT...LON 3629 8192 3620 8188 3612 8179 3613 8161
3626 8162 3631 8169 3632 8178
$$
SK1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS71 KRNK 192348
FFSRNK
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
738 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 2005
NCC189-200045-
WATAUGA NC-
738 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR WATAUGA
COUNTY...
AT 734 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE AN AREA OF PERSISTENT RAIN NEAR BEECH MOUNTAIN IN NORTHWEST
NORTH CAROLINA. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN
HAS FALLEN IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST WATAUGA COUNTY NEAR BEECH MOUNTAIN.
A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED THAT 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN JUST
NORTH OF BANNER ELK. AT 7:25 PM...THERE WAS A REPORT THAT LAUREL
AND BEECH CREEKS WERE RISING RAPIDLY.
LAUREL CREEK...BEECH CREEK...AND POND CREEK HAVE RECEIVED THE
HEAVIEST RAINFALL SO FAR. IF RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL IN THIS AREA
FLOODING IS LIKELY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE RAPID FLOODING OF
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADWAYS AND LOW-LYING AREAS.
TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG AT...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4.
LAT...LON 3629 8192 3620 8188 3612 8179 3613 8161
3626 8162 3631 8169 3632 8178
$$
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.